What the FUCK?? Chalabi as Iraqi prime minister?

[AntiCoup2K4]

Talking to Leslie on CNN right now.

Looks like this election was just as honest as ours :eyes:

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. That's his idea, is it?

Has he explained how? There are meant to be a few more likely candidates on his list. Has he been liberal with his bribes?

[nytemare]

2. I think it was "NewsHour" on PBS

That was saying that Chalabi was running third.

Interesting.

[Spazito]

3. The irony in this is too delicious...

Chalabi, the Iranian spy, cossetted and then condemned by the US, a criminal according to the Iraqi interim PM is going to be the PM. Is this Alice in Wonderland or what!

[proud patriot]

10. Truly Bizzarro World

:crazy:

why didn't we arrest him ?

He sold U.S. Secrets to Iran .

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. What's your beef with Chalabi?

:freak:

[chookie]

4. I'm sure Blitzer is grilling him with tough questions

Talk about the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, eh?

The next story is going to be about how Howard Dean is a screamer, and maybe "Monica: A Look Back Upon Presidential Disgrace When Terror Threatened."

[firebee]

5. Oh.... The irony of Bush's democracy.

Ahmed Chalabi, the Iranian spy, gives us bogus intelligence reports and redirects our attention from Iran to Iraq, which leads to the invasion of Iraq, but the Iraqi people elect him as Prime Minister???

[smoogatz]

6. If Chalabi is "elected" PM...

Iraq erupts into full-tilt civil war. What has been simmering unrest in the religious Shia'a majority will boil over. If you think Iraq is violent now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

[KeireG]

7. I don't know where this talk is coming from....

CNN.com has the headline about the election results...

[neweurope]

8. How? Not that I don't believe it - of course the US are trying something

dirty. But the Shiite Alliance had 4,075 million votes which is 47,6 %. The Kurds had 175 million, 25,4 % and Allawi 1,168 million, 13,6 %.

Source: Spiegel online.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. Here's what the NY Times has to say on the subject.

Chalabi's political future back on track
Baghdad
February 14, 2005


Nine months ago US soldiers pulled up to Ahmed Chalabi's compound in a raid, marking a dramatic break with the exile who, more than anyone else outside the US Government, made the case for the Iraq invasion.

Last week, a line of Humvees and trucks returned, this time bearing one of the American embassy's most important diplomats, Robert Ford. The purpose of Mr Ford's visit was to assess what the next Iraqi government, perhaps with Mr Chalabi in a senior job, was planning.

An American official described the meeting as routine, like others being held with influential Iraqi figures as the results of the January 30 elections come into focus. Still, the conversation seemed to mark a substantial change in the chemistry between Mr Chalabi and the US, after the raid on his compound last May on suspicion that he had passed top-secret information to Iran.

But more than anything, the visit demonstrated the change in Mr Chalabi's political fortunes. Vilified in the US, and often listed as one of the most unpopular people in Iraq, he is now all but assured of a seat in the National Assembly. And he has begun manoeuvring to become the prime minister.

Although he is by most accounts a long shot for the top job, Mr Chalabi, by quietly assembling an unlikely coalition of Shiite leaders and Islamist radicals, seems assured of a senior position. As the vote counting nears completion, he commands one of the largest blocs within the Shiite alliance, which, with 60 per cent of the vote, appears almost certain to head the next government.

His chances for the top job rest on the fractured nature of that Shiite group, the United Iraq Alliance.

- New York Times

So with a little PNAC manipulation, the "long shot" becomes the winner. December's a long way off.

[IronLionZion]

11. link?

who's got a link? all i could find was that the Shia slate of candidates won. No mention of prime minister or president.

[acmavm]

12. Why not put a criminal coward liar thief in charge there as well. Look

what it's doing for our country, and we have a whole bunch of 'em running things.

[IronLionZion]

14. are we going to have invade again to "liberate" people from Chalabi?

Maybe president George P. Bush will take care of that :eyes: Chalabi may actually have some WMDs by then.